Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
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- Synopsis
- Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature represent mystical attainment in their homilies about eating. What emerges is not only consideration of eating practices but, more broadly, the effects such practices and experiences have on the bodies of its practitioners.
- Copyright:
- 2005
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780814340035
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780814331811
- Publisher:
- Wayne State University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/07/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Wayne State University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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